Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention

[Love Soze]

lol @smashms1981, Josh just said your email on his live stream. I don't think he is gonna grant your wish.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

fuck off

Sperg.

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[Fliddaroonie]

Munchies get it all backwards. Most adults react to a loss of health in fear because they know being sick is going to make it harder to work and pay bills, which could risk making them and their families homeless. Munchies have no fear of this, and it shows in how they paint the narrative of being sick.

Makes you wonder what munchies are actually scared of? Looking at most of them, they seem to want to be coddled kids forever so it's probably growing up, standing on their own two feet and developing a personality outside of "speshul widdle sick giwy".



Personal cow of mine is in her thirties and while having no money to pay rent, she has plenty to blow on tamagotchis and games she wanted as a girl but which mummy and daddy never got her. "See MOM! I don't need to pay rent, I got me a pixel chix and I am FINE apart from the self dxd autism and intersex and EDS and other issues IN NO WAY related to me being 250lb!!", etc, etc.


But yeah, to get back to your point, the glee munchtards feel over being ill really comes across in everything they get up to. Can't say I ever met a brain tumour patient, (as in one who actually HAS a diagnosed, for-sure-there, totally-real brain tumour, not a cancer faker) or anyone else with a severe, potentially life limiting illness who reacted with anything other than horror, concern, etc

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

lol @smashms1981, Josh just said your email on his live stream. I don't think he is gonna grant your wish.

Is this the author of the 8 page email?

But yeah, to get back to your point, the glee munchtards feel over being ill really comes across in everything they get up to. Can't say I ever met a brain tumour patient, (as in one who actually HAS a diagnosed, for-sure-there, totally-real brain tumour, not a cancer faker) or anyone else with a severe, potentially life limiting illness who reacted with anything other than horror, concern, etc

Imagine throwing an anniversary party for the day you were diagnosed with a brain tumor? Folks would think its a side effect.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

Imagine throwing an anniversary party for the day you were diagnosed with a brain tumor? Folks would think its a side effect.

I genuinely cannot, and I can only imagine how unhinged you must be to do so. I can possibly understand certain times of year getting to people, say around the time they were diagnosed, stuff like that, making bad or unwanted memories resurface but I can't think how many screws you'd have to have missing, not just loose, to have an actual party to celebrate any sort of drastic or life changingly bad medical news

 

[pathetic-aesthetic]

Munchausen's seems to be so rampant in the queer community. I can't look at the Instagram bios of five queer-identifying people without at least one person claiming to be disabled. This is often coupled with self-diagnosed autism. Why is this? Is it just that disabled people are more comfortable with coming out, is it that queer people are more likely to have autism? Is it that munchies attention-grab at any and all opportunities so claiming a queer identity is just another way of getting attention?

 

[Munchie_Minder]

I initially thought that maybe she was looking to give herself histoplasmosis but if it can kill you and make it look like a heart attack perhaps that's the more logical explanation. Also a good reason to be suspicious of folks who choose to keep birds as pets.
Thanks for the link to Dr. Feldman's article I would love to see what his thoughts are on some of our threads sooper stars.


Thanks for pointing that out. I spent way too much time looking for another social media belonging to her to try and fill in the gaps. It looks like her and her pals mainly use instagram. It also makes me think that her doctors are aware that she's fiddling with her tubes and aggravating the skin on her stomach.

Re @beyondbendy she had a party on the anniversary of her DX. Who does that? Shouldn't that alone be a red flag to her family for munching? These girls are all from middle class families and have in general good family support systems and don't have to worry about bills or going homeless from not being able to work; so getting a DX for a lifelong disease in their late teens early 20s is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to them (unless you're a munchie). To me this is the equivalent of a someone who was the victim of a horrific crime celebrating that their life is forever changed by it.
Apologies if that reads as mad at the internet, I just find it truly bizarre even by this threads standards.

Fuck it, from now on I’m having a party for every new diagnosis I can aquire. Maybe if I strain hard enough and dehydrate myself I can get a hemorrhoid diagnosis. Who wants to come to my HAPPY HEMORRHOID PARTY? I will serve bloody mary’s, chocolate log cake, and recreate that Preparation H add for decor. Anybody?

 

[Fliddaroonie]

I vote this one to be our new pet resident cow.

Oh please! Please! I'll feed him and look after him and walk him EVERY DAY even when it's raining!!!

Fuck it, from now on I’m having a party for every new diagnosis I can aquire. Maybe if I strain hard enough and dehydrate myself I can get a hemorrhoid diagnosis. Who wants to come to my HAPPY HEMORRHOID PARTY? I will serve bloody mary’s, chocolate log cake, and recreate that Preparation H add for decor. Anybody?

Sign me the fuck up fo that shit (pun not intended but it's a nice touch, right?). I can make my tiramusu, I'll put cocoa powder in the marscapone and instead of amaretto I'll soak the lady fingers in prep H!

 

[SourDiesel]

Munchausen's seems to be so rampant in the queer community. I can't look at the Instagram bios of five queer-identifying people without at least one person claiming to be disabled. This is often coupled with self-diagnosed autism. Why is this? Is it just that disabled people are more comfortable with coming out, is it that queer people are more likely to have autism? Is it that munchies attention-grab at any and all opportunities so claiming a queer identity is just another way of getting attention?

I've noticed this and my theory is that taking on some obscure "queer" label and faking illness have similar reasons behind them. People who do these things feel uninteresting and crave positive attention. Both fake queers and munchie are most frequently basic, white, straight females. They need something to make them feel special and force people to pay attention to them and I think faking queerness or becoming a munchie both work towards that same goal. Like, attaching a queer label is just one more diagnosis for a munch and a munch disease is just one more special label to a fake queer.

 

[TwoFiftyTwoPM]

Munchausen's seems to be so rampant in the queer community. I can't look at the Instagram bios of five queer-identifying people without at least one person claiming to be disabled. This is often coupled with self-diagnosed autism. Why is this? Is it just that disabled people are more comfortable with coming out, is it that queer people are more likely to have autism? Is it that munchies attention-grab at any and all opportunities so claiming a queer identity is just another way of getting attention?

I think the queer community is experiencing an...I don't know how to put it exactly, surge? maybe? in people who are looking for identity. And a lot of people who would use something like their sexual orientation or gender as an identity are also going to be the same kind of people who don't HAVE a strong sense of identity. (Instead of integrating their sexuality/gender into their identity, it BECOMES their identity.)

Those same kinds of people will pick up every other little thing they steamroll across, too. Kind of like a lint roller, if that makes any sense.

EDIT: You said it much better than I did, @SourDiesel.

I've noticed this and my theory is that taking on some obscure "queer" label and faking illness have similar reasons behind them. People who do these things feel uninteresting and crave positive attention. Both fake queers and munchie are most frequently basic, white, straight females. They need something to make them feel special and force people to pay attention to them and I think faking queerness or becoming a munchie both work towards that same goal. Like, attaching a queer label is just one more diagnosis for a munch and a munch disease is just one more special label to a fake queer.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Munchausen's seems to be so rampant in the queer community. I can't look at the Instagram bios of five queer-identifying people without at least one person claiming to be disabled. This is often coupled with self-diagnosed autism. Why is this? Is it just that disabled people are more comfortable with coming out, is it that queer people are more likely to have autism? Is it that munchies attention-grab at any and all opportunities so claiming a queer identity is just another way of getting attention?

There's a strong overlap between atypical sexuality and cluster b personality disorders. There's your confounding variable.

 

[SourDiesel]

I think the queer community is experiencing an...I don't know how to put it exactly, surge? maybe? in people who are looking for identity. And a lot of people who would use something like their sexual orientation or gender as an identity are also going to be the same kind of people who don't HAVE a strong sense of identity. (Instead of integrating their sexuality/gender into their identity, it BECOMES their identity.)

Those same kinds of people will pick up every other little thing they steamroll across, too. Kind of like a lint roller, if that makes any sense.

EDIT: You said it much better than I did, @SourDiesel.

I see it like that too. Tbh, I think the increasingly ridiculous new queer labels people invent and take on is a kind of munching. Like a subset of munchies. If you aren't gay, bi or trans (not all versions of trans*), then you're basically munching.

*what I mean is sane people with actually diagnosed gender dysphoria count, literally everyone else is also munching

 

[Munchie_Minder]

There's a strong overlap between atypical sexuality and cluster b personality disorders. There's your confounding variable.

Yes.

I also think that there may be some overlap between people who are LGBTQ and feeling like they may not have been able to be their “real” self or having been rejected by parents for being LGBTQ, and I think, in some cases there may have been this idea that “if I’m sick or disabled, maybe they will show me they do actually care” or they will accept me and show love again. I can think of at least one munchie who seems to fit that.

I see it like that too. Tbh, I think the increasingly ridiculous new queer labels people invent and take on is a kind of munching. Like a subset of munchies. If you aren't gay, bi or trans (not all versions of trans*), then you're basically munching.

*what I mean is sane people with actually diagnosed gender dysphoria count, literally everyone else is also munching

Edit: To the comment above me, yes, I totally agree. I watched a live segment from someone on IG last week about trans awareness and they said, “I don’t think I’m any gender that has ever existed before.”

What?! 6+ billion people CURRENTLY alive in this world and you think you are so damned special that you don’t fit any gender ever described or that anyone else experiences? Hooooo boy you are “special”, huh?!

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Munchausen's seems to be so rampant in the queer community. I can't look at the Instagram bios of five queer-identifying people without at least one person claiming to be disabled. This is often coupled with self-diagnosed autism. Why is this? Is it just that disabled people are more comfortable with coming out, is it that queer people are more likely to have autism? Is it that munchies attention-grab at any and all opportunities so claiming a queer identity is just another way of getting attention?

IMO it's inherently attention seeking behavior just using a different method. I also think there's an element of self harm involved in munching closer to cutters than genderspecials. I'm currently reading the Sapphire Crimson Claw thread and she collects gender identities the way these munchies collects DX's. She is a prime example of someone claiming a number of genders/ sexualities because she lacks anything else to make herself seem interesting. It's all for sympathy and asspats. Also, I was directed there on the claims that she picks skin of her feet to sacrifice to her demon friends. I'm so disappointed she's not nearly as interesting as Kelly or Michelle.

Fuck it, from now on I’m having a party for every new diagnosis I can aquire. Maybe if I strain hard enough and dehydrate myself I can get a hemorrhoid diagnosis. Who wants to come to my HAPPY HEMORRHOID PARTY? I will serve bloody mary’s, chocolate log cake, and recreate that Preparation H add for decor. Anybody?

That was both hilarious and digusting lmao.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

It’s an interesting theory. So many are failed ballerinas. Maybe when you think you’re going to be brilliant at something, and it’s a physical thing, and you fail, the coping mechanism is to blame the body for all of your failures? It’s a way of deflecting the blame.

Most of these girls are coddled prima ballerina types. They’ve probably never dealt with failure to develop the grit needed to get back up.

They were attracted to the “idea” of ballerinas but none of them were up for the brutal work, discipline and pain of actually being one. Prima ballerinas are hardcore women with high pain tolerances and intense discipline. The feet of real ballerinas are actually painful to look at. They dance with all manner of injuries and must do so while barely eating enough to survive.

Actual prima ballerinas are tough as nails to get to the top of a very competitive field. Any ballerina who would play sick - or even gets real injuries or sicknesses - would find themselves dismissed from a company very quickly. Ballerinas will dance half-starved with a broken foot rather than miss a performance.

All this is to say these girls weren’t ballerinas. They were simply pretending to be one down at the storefront dance studio they took lessons at and the only parts they enjoyed were getting their photos taken in tutus and swaying around on stage at the yearly recital. They never had the talent or work ethic to be anything other than little girls playing dress up and prancing around for mom and dad to clap for them.

The role of “fragile sick girl” was just the one they adopted after they got too old to keep going with the fairy princess ballerina schtick.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

IMO it's inherently attention seeking behavior just using a different method. I also think there's an element of self harm involved in munching closer to cutters than genderspecials. I'm currently reading the Sapphire Crimson Claw thread and she collects gender identities the way these munchies collects DX's. She is a prime example of someone claiming a number of genders/ sexualities because she lacks anything else to make herself seem interesting. It's all for sympathy and asspats. Also, I was directed there on the claims that she picks skin of her feet to sacrifice to her demon friends. I'm so disappointed she's not nearly as interesting as Kelly or Michelle.


That was both hilarious and digusting lmao.

Agreed about Sapphire. I actually only made it through half her thread before moving on to Kelly. Is it worth going back to read the last Hundred pages or so?

Also, I find myself thinking about our doxed visitor Carrie who privately mentioned she felt like she wanted to belong to something. So belonging to the queer community or “spoonies” makes them feel like they have friends I guess.

 

[SourDiesel]

There's a strong overlap between atypical sexuality and cluster b personality disorders. There's your confounding variable.

The truth is, the "queer community" is 90% munchies right now. So yes, if you count them, you'll find a shitload of cluster b types. But you'll also find they are faking "atypical sexuality" it for attention.

But seriously, you've been on a tear today. You might as well just say you hate gay people and drop the charade.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Agreed about Sapphire. I actually only made it through half her thread before moving on to Kelly. Is it worth going back to read the last Hundred pages or so?

Also, I find myself thinking about our doxed visitor Carrie who privately mentioned she felt like she wanted to belong to something. So belonging to the queer community or “spoonies” makes them feel like they have friends I guess.

The banter in the thread is quite good but I've never been a tumblrite so a lot of it is like reading another language. I think a lot of this multiple genders/ sexualities and self dxing has bled out from Tumblr into the real world and here we are. Also one of the sexualities she made up, I can't remember which one because there's so many, literally means friend. If you have to have a special sexuality word for friend to put in your Twitter bio you probably don't have any friends.

Anyway, it's probably doing more harm than good to the community because it kind of takes away the struggle that an actual trans person no doubt goes through living as something they are not. If there's infinite genders it invalidates that emotional struggle like these EDS zebras doing their yoga poses for instagram invalidates the actual struggle of an EDS patient.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

The truth is, the "queer community" is 90% munchies right now. So yes, if you count them, you'll find a shitload of cluster b types. But you'll also find they are faking "atypical sexuality" it for attention.

But seriously, you've been on a tear today. You might as well just say you hate gay people and drop the charade.

Sexual Orientation and Relationship Choice in Borderline Personality Disorder over Ten Years of Prospective Follow-up

 

[Sooper Speshul Southerner]

FUCK YOU!!!

This one is having a rough time since leaving the IF hugbox.